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+# Copyright 2013-2021 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class RGitcreds(RPackage):
+    """Query 'git' Credentials from 'R'
+
+    Query, set, delete credentials from the 'git' credential store. Manage
+    'GitHub' tokens and other 'git' credentials. This package is to be used by
+    other packages that need to authenticate to 'GitHub' and/or other 'git'
+    repositories."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/r-lib/gitcreds"
+    url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/gitcreds_0.1.1.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/gitcreds"
+
+    version('0.1.1', sha256='b14aaf4e910a9d2d6c65c93e645f0b0159c00898e669f917f83c03dfedb1dfea')
+
+    depends_on('git', type='run')